I've covered math goals in previous blog posts and you can find them at the links below. However, I think that it is time for a reminder. Education is a journey. It is continuous progression toward virtue. We work out our salvation with fear and trembling. We are fallen and living as the first Adam, but we seek to be reconciled to our heavenly Father through the blood of the second Adam.
The study of mathematics seems so far removed from the pursuit of virtue that we sometimes feel as if we've lost our way. The truth is that God is the Truth, Goodness, and Beauty that we are seeking, but the seeking isn't the goal or end. The seeking leads us through constant changes from being to becoming and back to being again. Ultimately, we are all on the path to becoming something; we're just not all on the same path. If our seeking has lead us to discovering the logos of creation which can be described in a man-created language, then it is our duty to search out the hidden truths. Proverbs says that it is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out. As we continue on this path toward virtue, we are transformed.
The study of the revealed world through the language of Mathematics is a worthy goal in itself, but it isn't the ultimate goal. We don't need to justify our pursuit of virtue through mathematics by explaining how STEM fields need students with strong math skills, or how my high school transcript needs four math classes. None of that matters. What matters is how we live for Christ; how we are becoming more like Him - the savior of creation, mathematics, and us.